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    The Gift
    The Gift
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    The Gift

    By Hopie M. Robinson

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    Billionaire Edgar Wilkes and his beautiful wife, Madge, live a charmed life. Edgar is a neurosurgeon, while Madge is a financial writer and talented television personality. They have every luxury money can buy mansions, a private jet, fancy cars, and numerous other material things that come with great wealth. Whats more, they are both Christians.

    Even so, there is one thing Edgar and Madge dont haveindeed, cant haveand that is a child. No matter how hard they try or what science they use, a baby is one dream they never achieve.

    The same cannot be said for a destitute runaway named Marlene, who lives in the ghetto and struggles to take care of her newborn child.

    One day, Madge gets lost and finds young Marlene on the porch of an abandoned house in a horrible part of town. Madge initially stops to ask for directions, but her simple question becomes so much more as the women form a miraculous bond that only God could orchestrate. Through a lesson on the true grace of God, Madge must discover there are some gifts that money cant buy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9781491714270
    The Gift
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    Hopie M. Robinson

    Hopie M. Robinson is the president of Hope Family Ministry. She has been running outreach programs to her birth village of Victoria Town Manchester, Jamaica, for the past seventeen years. She is also the president of Golden Acreage Mortgage and Life Insurance Agency in Tamarac, Florida.  

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      The Gift - Hopie M. Robinson

      Copyright © 2013 Hopie M. Robinson.

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      This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1426-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1428-7 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1427-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013921369

      iUniverse rev. date: 12/11/2013

      Contents

      Preface

      A Cold Day

      Lack of Love

      Hope

      New Beginnings

      Dancing for Joy

      Welcome to the World

      The Graduation

      Changes

      Growth and Revelation

      The Proposal

      The Fulfillment of the Dream

      The Marriage

      See the Mighty Hand of God

      Notes

      To all those children in the world who consider themselves unwanted, please know you are all gifts to the world by your creator who truly loves you. To the boys and girls on this earth who find love and acceptance from parents and companions, choose a life that is likened to a man who plants a mango tree. When it grows up, it will give fruit to many generations. Live your life in such a manner that it influences others to do well. Impact your community and your generation for good. Leave your mark on the earth so that, for years after you leave, your name will never be forgotten and will be like that fruit tree that keeps giving good fruits to generations.

      While I am living on this earth, I will touch somebody that my living will not be in vain.

      —Mahalia Jackson

      Preface

      I wrote this book for the boys and girls of the world who thought their birth was a mistake. I want every young girl who gets pregnant outside of wedlock to know that the child she carries is a gift from God, her heavenly Father. He is good and only gives good gifts to his children that are his creation. And regardless how that child came into the earth, carrying that child God gave to full birth is no mistake. That new soul is entering the world and can make a difference for good on the earth. That child can turn what you considered a mess into a miracle.

      To the mother of that daughter who got pregnant at a young age and considered the pregnancy a hindrance in her child’s life, that child is a gift from God, not a mistake. That very child may give you a cup of water when you are old, weak, sick and unable to take care of yourself. Because you nurtured, loved, and forgave her for what you considered her mistake instead of disowning her or tossing her out of your home at this critical time of her life, you now have a precious grandchild that is your pride and joy. This baby can be the very source of hope, strength, and help to you based on how you treat and rear him or her. If you give love, love will be returned to you.

      A child is likened to a grain or seed when planted in good soil. It will grow and bring forth an abundant harvest that gives enough grain to fill you and to put in store for the rainy days when you cannot plant or reap. Embrace every child you are blessed to interact with. One word of kindness can make a difference.

      To the adoptive parents who know a young girl who desires to give away that unplanned baby so she can go on with her life, consider the mother, not just her child. Keep a connection if you can. It will make your adoptive child more whole. Having a connection with his or her biological parent will make that child know who he or she is. The adoption came about as an economic decision, not a decision of neglect or the idea he or she was unwanted. That connection must be one of love, not abuse. You must protect your child, and you should not adopt if you know you are not ready for the constraints and responsibility of child rearing.

      Look to the good of the mother who carried that child. I believe that, if young girls knew they would not lose the connection of their children by allowing an adoption, they would carry the children to birth and not choose abortion as a way of removing the burden of caring for those unplanned children. I think that, if young girls knew that the children they carry are a gift from God and those children could bring joy beyond their expectation, there would not be the millions of abortion in this world. The right-wingers who preach the end of abortion should teach and guide young girls to the truth and knowledge of God’s gift of life rather than killing abortion doctors and nurses or picketing the abortion clinics. Instead, they should nurture the young girls and make arrangement for the yet unborn child to find loving and caring adoptive parents and homes. The evil ones could not kill so many innocent ones by abortion. Life would come to many. That would make this world a better place for all of us to live.

      If all the people who are against abortion would become adoptive parents and mentor the mothers who would choose abortion, they could let that mother know she can lean on them and help her to be strong when she is at her weakest. It would serve the plans of God much more than picketing or marches on the nation’s capital.

      All the government legislation in the world will not stop abortion if the mother feels rejected and senses that her child would be a hindrance to her growth and lifestyle. But if told that the child is a blessing and gift from God, she would not choose abortion.

      The only way to stop the killing of unborn children is to live in love. Thousands of children live on the streets and eat out of trash baskets and garbage landfills. Provisions should be made for them to be taken into the homes of men and women who live alone in dwellings and mansions with empty rooms, those who eat and drink in excess to their own destruction. If they would open their doors and take in these children, the plague of poverty would be abolished on the earth. Poverty brings forth poverty. If the child grows up without mentoring, attention, care, or availability to a good education, that child would inevitably produce children who are as poor and poverty-stricken as he or she was. If you are rich, do not be like the rich man toward Lazarus (the Bible story found in Mark 5:10-15). That rich man ended up in hell and eternal damnation while Lazarus went to heaven and rested in Abraham’s arms.

      Let your light so shine on the earth by your good works that glorifies God your Father and creator. If you are rich and have access to resources, then build villages for orphans. House, feed, and teach them. The word of God would then go far by your good works. Let every generation bring faith and works to the next that the world can be a better dwelling place for man, and we could have heaven here on earth. Bring delight to your heavenly Father, who will bless you. Give of your goods to the needy for the word of God said in the Bible, Work that you may have to give to those who are in need.

      Train up a child so he or she may know how to live when he or she is grown. Children are not to be tossed out in the field and grown without care, but rather, they should be planted in good ground, and our heavenly Father will bring forth the increase. A child is a seed and should be planted and nurtured. If

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